# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-russ
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:12:59.525Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-russ"
name: "William Russ"
slug: "william-russ"
description: "William Russ is an American actor and television director. He played Alan Matthews on the sitcom Boy Meets World (1993–2000) and appeared in the television series Wiseguy, the soap operas Another World and The Young and the Restless and the feature films The Right Stuff (1983), Pastime (1990) and American History X (1998)."
tagline: "Actor, television director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Russ_(1977).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1950-10-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.189628
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0750916/"
    handle:    "nm0750916"
sources:
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    title: "ولیم روس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Russ"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Russ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://diq.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Russ"
    title: "William Russ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Russ"
    title: "William Russ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "ویلیام راس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Russ"
    title: "William Russ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Russ"
    title: "William Russ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ウィリアム・ラス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "윌리암 러스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Russ"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Russ"
    title: "William Russ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Russ"
    title: "William Russ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q924039"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump